1 a lot of effort that you put into doing something
I would beg of you to appreciate that increased production relies on many things other than the expenditure of human sweat and elbow grease.
What we need is skilled and energetic planning and elbow grease.
It needs a vigorous application of that primaeval energy source, elbow grease, if it is to be worth even our interest.
More elbow grease was applied to the scouring of a pot than, probably, to any other household task.
Increased productivity per head of the population in this country rests on many things other than human sweat and elbow grease.
It was mainly ineffectual elbow grease until the pot scourer came along.
Each tradesperson will say someone else has the elbow grease and send the unwitting apprentice on to another master tradesperson.
The museum is a free and not-for-profit service, has been funded exclusively through the generosity of our donors and the free elbow grease of its founders.
